Bio: Bounty hunters and droids take senators hostage on Coruscant. Robonino, Shahan Alama, assassin droids and commando droids help Cad Bane force the release of Ziro the Hutt. The villainous posse infiltrates the Republic Senate, captures a small group of senators, and frees the imprisoned crime lord. Cunning and ruthless, the criminal gang gets the best of clone troopers, Senate commando guards, and even Anakin Skywalker before fleeing the planet. (Taken from the figure's packaging.)

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Commentary: Colorful, weird, tiny, and-- surprisingly-- an exclusive. In 2010 Hasbro gave a lot of all-new molds to its retail partners in exclusive sets like Robonino here, who'd admittedly make a crappy carded figure at $8 or so. As part of a $25 set he's not bad-- Shahan Alama and the two blue Assassin Droids make up the weight. Robonino's impressive deco sports tons of colors, with dots, stripes, pink highlights, and more making up this figure's look. He has an eyepatch, a squinty eye, and fins all over the place. It looks great, like it jumped out of the cartoon. He's jointed at the neck, shoulders, waist, hips, and if you can believe it-- the ankles too. (I barely believe it.) He's quite the neat little guy, and even neater than the figure is his gear compliment.

The blaster is rubber-banded to his hand and if you're thinking about removing it, you may as well leave it there. It really does help. His remote detonator fits snuggly into his right hand, so no worries there. The coolest piece of equipment is his backpack, which sports an honest-to-goodness jointed hatch on the top plus four removable explosive packs, each of which sport a little paint. There are silver highlights on the backpack, as well as white Aurebesh letters that read "THERMAL" on it-- no doubt short for "Thermal Detonators." Hasbro had a small figure and really stepped up to the plate in terms of adding value with all the extra paint jobs and the added gear. If you buy one-- especially individually-- know that there should be four removable explosive things for the backpack, and also know you can store the detonator in the top compartment of the backpack. I like this one, and while I bought the set at $25 you may not feel it's worth the asking price. Because you are cheap. It's a good pack.

Collector's Notes: While all the other October and November 2010 exclusives went away pretty quick, this assortment hung around for a while. How long? Well, it was still there today. So you might still be able to find one at a Target near you.

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Figures presented in this column were purchased privately by the author or are provided courtesy Hasbro, Hunter PR, Entertainment Earth, or elsewhere. Items are part of the staff archives and are not for sale.

About Me

Adam Pawlus has written about Star Wars action figures, toys, and collectibles on the web since 1995. He has worked for a variety of magazines and websites and presently works as a Toy Evangelist for Entertainment Earth. He also loves Jolt.